x, 342 pages : 21 cm

In this work that provides an explanation for both the rise of Islamic fundamentalism and new forms of Western colonialism, Tariq Ali argues that what we have experienced since September 11 is the return of history in an horrific form

Includes bibliographical references and index

Part I: Mullahs and heretics. An atheist childhood -- The origins of Islam -- The empire of the world -- Jerusalem, Jerusalem -- Ottomanism -- The joys of heresy -- Women versus the eternal masculine -- Part II: One hundred years of servitude. A spring memory -- The roots of Wahhabism -- The kingdom of corruption -- Zionism, the first oil war, resistance -- Marginal notes on the chapter of defeats -- The anti-imperialism of fools -- An ocean of terror -- Part III: The nuclear wastelands of South Asia. The case of Anwar Shaikh -- Plain tales from Pakistan -- Afghanistan: between hammer and anvil -- The story of Kashmir -- Part IV: A clash of fundamentalisms. A short-course history of US imperialism -- September surprise -- Letter to a young Muslim -- Appendix: On the Israeli-Arab war

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